Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d6a3915974da77c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.4 KB
MD5: 74573db4d0e8d58541ef381c033f3e17 SHA-1: 7a16d3dda2275b07245595567bbb50538b9b2080 SHA-256: 9d6a3915974da77c92644e1dd1ef75a1d7ab29bd5d4d283d36acda4cdeb75af1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used in conjunction with such exploits to download further stages of the attack. The ClamAV detection further corroborates the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 4

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

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